Categories: anything-and-everything
Date: 30 January 2007 07:16:27
I sat down merrily at ye olde computer this morning to sort out my Junior assembly and to blog about something that I'll blog after I've blogged this...! Anyway, I got slightly side-tracked by Persephone Hazard and her moonrock soap! Ooh, that looks fun I thought... Unfortunately I didn't have a bar of ordinary soap around but I did remember the bright green R***x soap I got with a Christmas present. I wasn't quite sure what the perfumed, R***x aspect of the bar would do in the microwave but, hey, green moonrock - cool!
Anyway, I took the before pictures, bunged it in, retreated to the other side of the kitchen (camera in hand and at the ready just in case there was an impressive explosion to capture on 'film') and then waited. It's a bit concerning when your microwave's pretty old and the light doesn't work anymore so you can't see what's happening. But all seemed to be fine until just over a minute in and smoke started coming from the microwave and a revolting smell of burning. Now this might be par for the course when you're making moonrock, but I thought the perfume bit might be about to do something nasty so I wimped out*!! You could see the beginnings of the moonrock though. (The house stinks of burnt R***x soap now... TeenSon will be so impressed when he wakes up!).
*When you have experienced a microwave explosion in the kitchen before, it makes you slightly cautious about doing it again... a few years ago I accidently blew up a mince pie... there was a huge bang as the plate broke in half and flames shot out of the microwave!
After thought: The theme we've been given for assemblies for the next couple of weeks is, 'What would Jesus have done?' I suspect he wouldn't have blown up perfumed soap in the microwave... but then he's probably better at physics and stuff than me! Right... assembly... I don't think I'll mention the soap!